The FEC Should Take A Page From the FTC

Rather than denouncing the Obama FTC for its overreach in the POM Wonderful case, we should demand that the FEC apply the same standards to political campaigns.

May 5, 2014 6:19 p.m. ET

Regarding your editorial "Warning: Contains Juice" (May 2): Rather than denouncing the Obama FTC for its overreach in the Pom Wonderful case, we should all be demanding that the FEC apply the same standards to political campaigns. If politicians had to produce two independent studies to back up any claim they make in their campaign speeches and literature, we might never have had to listen to the president's repeated, and knowingly false, claims about ObamaCare, the IRS scandal or Benghazi. Jay Carney would have to...